Ticket.



'UNITED singes ALLEN I. BLANCHARD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TICKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 24, 1906.

Application filed March 8, 1904. Serial No. 197.092.

To tu whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALLEN I. BLANCHARD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Tickets, of which the following is aspecification.

)Iy invention relates to cash-fare slips or receipts and books orholders therefor of the general character illustrated and described inPatent No. 699,139, heretofore issued to me on May 6, 1902. As in mysaid prior patent, the present slips are provided with series of figuresfrom 0 to 9, indicating dollars, dimes, and cents, and arrangel withinthe covers of a book provided with a straight edge and tearing point orrecess whereby the two portions of a slip or ticket may beseparatedffrom each other and the amount of cash fare paid properlyindicated upon them. As illustrated in my said patent, the supply ofslips or tickets was bound in book form and perforated along a line neartheir bindingpoint to facilitate their removal one by one; but accordingto my present invention the tickets are not bound together, but looselyheld together in a book or case by an elastic band pressing upon theirinner longitudinal edges with sufficient pressure to hold them in place,but permitting them to be slipped out or abstracted one by one, asrequired. Moreover, my book is provided with a pocket or depositorynormally pressed closed, in the present instance by the same band whichholds the ticket, in which pocket or depository the conductor places andpreserves that portion of the slips or tickets commonly called theauditors stub. Furthermore, my present tickets differ from those of mysaid patent in that means are provided for indicating the date and alsofull and half fares in the novel and efficient manner hereinafter .madeapparent.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing myticket-book open, exposing the face of the uppermost ticket of a bunchof tickets therein and showing the tearing-edge and gage on the innerface of one of the covers; Fig. 2, a plan view of a ticket severed,indicating a half-fare amounting to 331.77 and dated November 15, 1903;Fig. 3, a cross-section of the ticketbook and tickets, taken in a linepassing through the tearing-point 5 and Fig. 4, a detail showing how theticket is severed to indicate a drawback.

The same letters of reference are used to indicate identical parts inthe several views.

The slips or tickets used in connection with my present improvement areprinted the same as those of my prior atent, particularly with the threeseries of igures from OH to 9,H arranged in divisions along thelongitudinal divisional line of the ticket, whereby when a ticket isseparated or severed longitudinally the severed edges of the twoportions or halves indicate the amount of cash fare paid.

My present ticket thus severable into the two portions A A', the formerthe passengers ticket or receipt and the latter the conductors orauditors stub, or vice versa, consequently embodies all the essentialfeatures or indications of my prior ticket, but includes in additionthereto a means for indicating the date and also half-fares. As hereinshown, I print the months of the year and a series of years in rows,asindicated at aand a', respectively, and by punching the proper monthand year is thereby indicated. In practice a supply of these tickets maybe thus punched in advance by the conductor for rea/ly use throughoutany given month. The tickets are printed along their inner edge with the'figures 1 to 31, representing the days of the mouth, and the particularday is indicated by means of the notch made by the tearing-point, ashereinafter explained when the manipulation of the ticket is described.

The half-fares are indicated in a novel and eflicient manner by thesevering of the ticket diagonally of a square or rectangle B, printed onthe right-hand end of the ticket beyond the cents-division and adjacentthe central longitudinal division-line or line of severance of ttheticket. As indicated in the drawings, there are printed within theconfines of t 1e square the words Full fare,H between which is printedwhat is apparently a scroll, but is, in effect, two figures 2. Thesefigures are arranged side by side; but the right-hand one is reversed asto the other. The lower le0r of the letter F of the word lFull, wIiileconforming to the remainder of the letter, without close inspection,represents, in fact, the figure 1, between which and the left-handfigure 2 is printed as part of the scroll referred to a diagonal linecorresponding to the line used between `figures indicating fractions.Then the division-line is made diagonally through the square B, asillus- IOO IIO

trated in v-Fig5 2, the passengers receipt or ticket is made'to indicatea half-fare, inasmuch as the lower half of the square when thusseparated from the upper half plainly exhibits the indication Fare, theii ure 1 of the fraction being the lower leg o theY letter F of the wordFull and the figure 2 and the diagonal line being supplied4 from whatwas apparently a scroll before the severing took place. The top line ofthe rectangle or square B corresponds with the division-line of theticket, with the result that when the ticket is severed for a full farethe words Full fare appear wholly on the passengers ticket.

The-ticket-book comprises in the present instance a cover consisting oftwo outer leaves C and D and an inner leaf E, all hinged together insuitable manner at their inner longitudinal edges. The leaf C isprovided with the strip of sheet metal forming the straight edge ortearing edge C', the tearingpoint c, and gage c and also made narrowerthan-'fthe other leaves, so that the tickets will project beyond thestraight edge, just as in rmy prior patent. The inner leaf E constitutesthe support for the supply of tickets, which are' not bound together, asin my prior patent, but arranged loosely in a bunch and held to the leafE with a yielding pressure. To thus hold the tickets together, I employanelastic or rubber band E', pressing upon the inner longitudinal edgeof the tickets and of 'the leaf E. This leaf, in connection with theouter leafY D, forms between them a pocket or receptacle which isutilized by the conductor for receiving and preserving the auditorsstub, and in order that the pocket shall be normally kept closed theelastic or rubber band E also embraces the inner edge of such leaf D,thereby performing in the present instance a double function. For thepurpose of retaining the band in proper position the edges of the leavesD and E, upon which the band presses, are notched, as at d and e.

In practice the conductor receiving a cashfaretakes' the book of ticketsfrom his pocket and taking hold of the outer edge of the uppermostticket withdraws the same from undernea'th' the rubber band.' Thisticket is drawn outwardly somewhat and then slipped inwardly until itsinner edge comes against and is stopped by the gage c', whereupon thelarge Vgures in the several denominational divisions will be broughtadjacent the tearing edge C. Any desired numbers in the severa'ldivisions may be brought successively beneath the tearing-point, such asl 7 7 as shownin the drawings, representing a fare of one dollar andseventy-seven cents. If the amount 'paid is for a full fare, the tearingalong the straight edge is continued to the end thereofafter the centshave been indicated; but in case it is for half-fare the divisionallline is discontinued afterthe inner corner of the square B is reached,and the ticket is thereupon brought in such position with relation tothe' straight edge as to be severed diagonally of such square, so thatthe ticket is severed or separated, as shown in Fig. 2. As a convenientway in mani ulating the ticket for thus indicating hal '-fares theticket after being severed up to the square is slipped upwardly and thenturned. at an angle of forty-five degrees with relation to the book, sothat the upper corner of the straight edge (represented at C2 in Fig. 1)rests upon the inner upper corner of such square. The diagonal tear isthen made along the upper end of the straight edge. The tickets beingalready punched to indicate the year and month, the day of the month isindicated on the passengers ticket by slipping such ticket along thestraight edge until its' tearing-point comes opposite the proper day,whereupon the ticket 1s drawn against the point and a triangular pieceremoved from the ticket. The row of days of the month is printed atsucha distance from the inner edge that in this particular tearingoperation the inner edge of the ticket will not lie underneath thestraight edge, but correspond therewith, with the result that after theticket has been inserted under the point or tooth the ticket may be bentslightlyby the iingers and slipped along the straight -edge with theinner edge oil the ticket bearing v against the straight edge untilthe'tooth points to the proper day. The passengers ticket or receipt ishanded to the passenger, and the conductors slip or auditors stub isthen placed into the pocket, the leaves D and E being opened by theconductor against the yielding pressure of the band E. y

Under the laws of a number of the States a railroad com any is permittedto charge a cash fare w 'ch is greater than the fare charged when aticket is regularly purchased from the ticket agent, and the laws ofsome of these States provide, further, that the excess fare may besubsequently collected back by the passenger as a rebate or drawback,while other of these States permit the railroad company to retain suchexcess. To provide a single form of cash-fare ticket useful to arailroad whose line or system may traverse or enter two or more of suchStates having different laws in vthe respects noted, I embody in suchticket'provision for a drawback or rebate. A portion or section on thelefthand end, Figs. 1 and 2, of the ticket is used for such purpose, andthe same is provided with two sets of numbers 10 and 25 or other desirednumbers, representing in cents the amounts of the drawback. These nu1nbers are arranged on either side of aline which separates the large andsmall figures representing dollars, dimes, and cents. This part of theticket is printed on the auditors stub TOO portion with the wordDrawback and the numbers l and 25, as stated, while the passengersportion, in addition to such numbers l0 and 25, has printed the wordsDrawback on this receipt and also the word No In practice the conductorbefore severing the ticket to indicate the cash paid, as hereinbet'oreexplained, brings the rebate or drawback portion of the ticket beneaththe tearing-tooth, so as to cover the or 25 of such drawback portion, sothat that number' or amount will remain on the passenger"s stub orreceipt as indicating the amount otl his drawback, after which t-heregular severing otl the ticket to indicate the amount ot cash tare paidis proceeded with. The word "No on the drawback portion of the ticket isthen punched out by a conductor's punch. rhere the tickets are beingused on a line or division of railroad where drawbacks are alwaysprovided for, a bunch of such tickets may be punched to remove the word"No" lhen no drawback is allowed, severing occurs along the line betweenthe numbers l0 and 25, so that the printed matter on the passengersreceipt reads No drawback.

As in the case of my patent aforesaid, No. 699,139, a V-sha ed notch orrecess may be employed instcat of a V-shaped tearing point or tooth.

l claim* 1. A ticket-book comprising hinged leaves or covers C, D and E,a tearing edge on the lealE a supply of tickets on the leaf E, and meansfor holding the inner longitudinal edges ot the leaves D and E together'with a yielding pressure and vfor binding said tickets onto the leat' E;substantially as described.

'2. A ticket-book comprising hinged leaves or covers C, D and E, theleaf C being ot less width than the other covers and provided with atearing edge, and an elastic band cooperating with the innerlongitudinal edges ot the leaves D and E and holding them and the supplyot' tickets together with a yielding pressure; substantially asdescribed.

l5. 4A ticket-book comprising hinged leaves C, D and E, a tearing edgeon the leaf C, a supply of tickets on the leaf E, two opposite ends ot'the leaves D and E being correspondingly notched, and an elastic bandreceived in said notches and embracing the inner edge of the tickets andotl the leaves D and E and tending to hold the last-named leavestogether; substantially as described.

4. 'lhe hereindescribed ticket having printed along its division-lineseries ot'tigures 0 to 9 in separate divisions, and a symbol or scrolland an adjacent character near said division-line, said symbol or scrollbeing without significance until the ticket is severed for half-fare,whereupon the symbol or scroll in connection with the adjacent characterindicates half-tare; substantially as described.

5. The hereindescribed ticket having printed along its division-lineseries of Viigures l'rom 0 to f) in separate divisions, and havingprinted on one portion and on one side of the division-line the words`Full fare with an intermediate symbol or scroll which is withoutsigniiication when the ticket is issued vfor full fares, but which, whensevered along a line at an angle to said division-line, and through theletter F ot' the Full indicates half-fare; substantially as described.

6. rllhe hereindescribed ticket having printed along its division-lineseries ot 'figures from 0 to 9 in separate divisions and lrzving printedon one portion and on one side of the Ydivision-line the words "F ulltare with an intermediate scroll consisting of two figures 2 (one ofwhich is reversed) and a diagonal line between one olt these figures andthe lower end ot the letter F of the said word FulkH whereby when acorner ot said portion ot' the said ticket is severed at an angle tosaid divisional line, such portion indicates "l,- Fare, substantially asdescribed.

7. The herein-ilescribed ticket-book comrisinu' the hinged leaves C Ethe tearin r edge (l arranged upon the leaf C and having thetearing-point c, and a supply ot tickets removably secured to leal: E,each ot such tickets having printed along its division-lines series offigures Afrom (l to E), in separate divisions and also having near itslongitudinal edge a series or row of [igures l'rom l. to 31, such rowbeing printed a distance from the edge substantially equaling the lengthol the tearing-point, substantially as described.

8. The herein-described ticket-book coinprising the hinged leaves C E, atearing edge arranged on the leat' C and having a tearing point ortooth, and a supply of tickets detachably secured to the leaf E, each ofsuch tickets having printed .near one edge a row of' igures Vfrom l to31, such row being` printed a distance from the edge substantiallyequaling the length of the tearing-point; substantially as described.

ALLEN l. BLANCHARD.

WYitnesseS:

LoUrs B. EawiN, EDWARD RECTOR.

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